Social and Political

Iranwire – Protesters in the eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan took to the streets after Friday prayer, calling for more freedoms, the release of all political prisoners and the downfall of the clerical regime. According to images published on social media on December 9, residents of the provincial capital, Zahedan, carried the Iranian three-color flag without the emblem of the …

Iranwire – Angry Iranians have taken to the streets of the Iranian capital to protest the first known execution connected to the demonstrations that have swept the country for more than 12 weeks. Mohsen Shekari was executed by hanging on December 8 for allegedly stabbing a member of the paramilitary Basij force at a September demonstration in the capital, state …

Iranwire – At the entrance of Tehran’s Englebal metro station, several people are screaming; one is moaning in pain, another is cursing in loud voice and a third is shouting, “Don’t hit her, bastard, don’t hit her, let her go”. People trapped inside the station start yelling, “Let her go, let her go”. A tear gas canister falls among the …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime hastily executed imprisoned protester Mohsen Shekari, 23, on the morning of Thursday, December 8, 2022.The Iranian Supreme Court rejected the appeal for Mohsen Shekari’s death sentence on the charge of Moharebeh (waging war on God) and carried out the sentence Thursday morning.Shekari is the first Iran protester executed by the Iranian Judiciary.Shekari was accused of …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities executed today a young protester, Mohsen Shekari, after he was convicted and sentenced to death in proceedings that bore no resemblance to a meaningful trial for participating in the ongoing popular uprising across the country, said Amnesty International today. “We are horrified that the Iranian authorities have executed Mohsen Shekari, less than three weeks after …

CHRI – The execution today in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, 23, after a trial by a kangaroo court that denied him due process emphasizes the need for urgent international action to stop the Iranian government’s killing spree to crush protests, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “This was a political murder, not a judicial sentence,” said CHRI Executive Director …

Al-Monitor — Iran’s police chief Hossein Ashtari issued yet another warning to the protesters who have been flocking Iranian streets for nearly three months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in custody of hijab enforcing Guidance Patrol.   “Security forces will no longer exercise restraint,” announced the commander Dec. 8, praising his officers for their active presence nationwide to counter “seditionists,” one …

Al-Monitor – Iran commemorated Student Day on Wednesday to honor three students who were killed under the previous government in 1953. This year, however, the occasion year coincides with protests and calls for strikes from protesters who have been demonstrating since Sept. 16.  On Tuesday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which was established in …

Al-Monitor – The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated a network led by Turkish businessman Sitki Ayan, which it accused of facilitating the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Ayan’s network both facilitated and concealed the transfer of Iranian oil on behalf of the …

Ever since the start of the current uprising in Iran the revolution has been described as leaderless, but it seems that the leader of this movement cannot be assigned an individual but rather resides in an energetic force binding people together in a forceful battle against a leaderless and oppressive government. This force has spread like a wind across the …